(08-20-2025, 08:05 AM) "Drunk Monk Wrote: Today starts with a call to AAA to get a jump start. When Stacy's mom passed away earlier this year, Tara inherited her PT Cruiser, which is now stored at my mom's house. It's a cute car, in reasonably good shape, but it needs to be run to keep the battery charged and I neglected it over the last few weeks. Honestly, I've been annoyed by the chore because I had to do the same weekly chore for my mom's old toyota. We eventually gave that away to a family friend, who is now one of Stacy's regular clients and still drives it. I was so relieved when we got rid of it, and now we have another. Tara has put off doing the transfer and now the car has a dead battery so I cannot get the odometer reading needed for the transfer form. So AAA to the rescue again.
Once again AAA is the boss.
Running the pt for an hour now to recharge the battery, which is how long the AAA guy recommended. The engine runs a bit unevenly - there’s an odd intermittent click. But otherwise it seems ok.
The battery is 2024 and the AAA guy said that if it happens again, don’t tell the AAA responder that the car was inherited (only AAA installed batteries are under warranty, which I didn’t know). He’s getting a 5 star review.
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